Vaporizer carrier



March 18, 1952 M KATZMAN 2,589,817

VAPORIZER CARRIER Filed Oct. 25. 1949 Arme/vir:

Patented Mar. 18 1952 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE VAPORIZER CARRIER MaxKatzman, Brooklyn, N. Y. Application October 25, 1949, Serial No.123,463 Claims. (Cl. 21S- 40) This invention relates to carriers forvaporizers and has for one of its objects to provide a stable carrierand stand combination for a vaporizer. Another object is to provide asimple and inexpensive handle for a vaporizer which may be Aeasily andconveniently attached and removed.

Another object is to provide effective means for preventing separationof the vaporizer container and its lid while the electric current is on,in order to protect the used against burns from touching the heatingelement and against receiving an electrical shock.

A still further object is to provide a protective carrier which willprevent the vaporizer container from cracking or breaking by cushioningthe shock when the unit is set down sharply.

A still further object is to provide a vaporizer carrier and standcombination which may be formed as a sheet metal stamping, and whichwill always rest firmly on a horizontal surface.

Other objects and advantages will hereinafter appear.

In the accompanying drawings in which similar reference charactersdenote corresponding parts:

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of an illustrative carrier and stand unit inplace on a vaporizer;`

Fig. 2 is a top View showing the container and handle and; y f

Fig. 3 is a top View in section, on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1, illustratingthe construction of the stand.

Referring to the drawings, the vapcrizer unit is generally shown at I0,and is of usual construction, comprising a conventional liquid containerII, which may be a glass jar. Heating electrodes I2 are attached to, butinsulated from, 'the bottom of a cap I3 which is adapted to be l screwedonto the top of the container II. The

cap I3 also includes a vapor emission spout I4, and electrode terminalsI5 and I6 which project from the lid I3.

Q The combination carrier and stand which embodies the invention isgenerallydesgnated at Il. It is constructed principally of resilientsheet metal or other suitable resilient material. Itis .basically aU-shaped spring clamp formed provide a lower jaw or bases I8, an upperjaw I9 and auconnecting handle member 20.

The upper jaw- I9 comprises an-inbent upper E f.

end.: of the handle member 20 and a rigid, notched, insulating extensionplate 2I secured thereto by rivets 22. The plate 2I is designed to taround the protruding electrode terminals I5 and IB and to extendbetween the cover and an extension cord plug when the latter is appliedto the electrode terminals for heating the vaporizer. The handle member20 is curved outward away from the vaporizer at its upper end to providea. handgrip space between the handle and the vaporizer, but has itslower end curved and sloped inward, with a sloping portion near itslower extremity disposed to engage and bear resilientiy against a lowermargin of the vaporizer.

The base I8 is an inturned, desirably integral, extension of the handlemember 20. It forms a three point support for the vaporizer. At thelower end of the handle member ZIJ the metal extends downward past thebottom of thevaporizer and is curved to U-form to provide a rear foot23, which connects with a substantially horizontal body portion 24. Thebody portion 24 is divided to form divergent arms 25 whose outer endsare bent downward and Ythence curved to U-form to provide forward spacedfeet 26. Beyond the feet 26 the arms 25 terminate in upstanding lingers2'I which extend well above the plane of the body portion 24.

The metallic portion of the carrier may be stamped to provide thedivergent arms 25 directly. An economy of metal can be realized,however, if a strip of metal is rst stamped with the arms in parallelrelation and the arms are subsequently spread to the form shown.

The carrier is applied to the vaporizer by inserting the electrodeterminals I5 and I6 into the notches of the plate 2| with the carrierspring in inclined relation to the vaporizer as illustrated in dot anddash lines in Fig. 1. The handle and vaporizer body are then pressed toward one another to force the carrier into the full line positionillustrated in Fig. 1.

With the fingers 2l and the lower extremity of the handle 20 engagingthe bottom portion of the vaporizer periphery at substantially equallyspaced points, and with the notched extension plate 2I interloclred withthe electrode terminals I5 and I6, the carrier cannot be accidentallyseparated from the vaporizer. The carrier forms a stable support for thevaporizer which serves to support the hot vaporizer at a distance fromany surface upon which the carrier is set. The carrier thereforeinterferes with the direct transmission of heat from the vaporizer tothe supporting furniture, and thereby aids in protecting the furniturefrom damage.

When the handle 2U is grasped in the usual manner to transport thevaporizer and the vaporizer is then set down, there is a naturaltendency to set down the unit so that the rearward foot 23 of thecarrier touches the supporting surface first. The vaporizer container IIbeing generally constructed of glass, is likely to be rather fragile,and the sudden shock created when the unit is carelessly placed on asupporting surface may crack the container II. To avoid this danger thecarrier is so constructed that the base I8 does not normally restagainst the bottom of theon tainer I I in the region of the foot 23. f

The arms 25 and the body 24 of the base do not extend in a planeparallel with the plane defined by the lowest points of the threesupporting feet 23, 26, 26, but do extend in a plane which slopesdownward from the front to the rear. The bottom of the vaporizercontainer l l is, however, caused to occupy a substantially horizontalattitude, and hence to diverge rearwardly from the arms 25 and the body24.

This divergence is brought about by reason of the fact that the normalspace between the fingers 21 on the one hand and the lower eX- tremityof the handle 29 on the other is insucient to accommodate the containerI l. The ngers 21 and the handle 29 therefore eXert a squeezing actionupon the container. The lower extremity of the handle 29 deviatessufficiently from the vertical, and from parallelism with the iingers21, to cause it to cam the lower rear edge of the container upward. Thiscauses the Arear portion of the container to be resiliently supported ata short but important distance from the surface of the -body 24. Withthis construction, the shock applied to the foot 23 when the carrier isset down will not be transmitted as a shock to the container I l, butwill be absorbed by the resiliency of the handle 29. This actioneffectively protects the container against cracking.

When the handle is in place the cap l'3 cannot be removed without firstremoving the handle and stand unit. The user is prevented, Vtherefore,from taking the device apart, thus being prevented from burning himselfon the heating electrodes I2. In case an electrical plug, not shown, isseated on the electrode terminals it effectively interferes with theremoval of the carrier from the vaporizer, at least until the electricalconnections are broken. Since the cover cannot be removed until thecarrier has been removed, there is no danger of exposing the electrodeswhile they are connected to the source of current.

It will now be appreciated that the novel carrier and stand combinationwill serve to fully realize the several objects hereinabove expressed.The details of present description are to be regarded as illustrative,and not as limiting, inasmuch as numerous variations in structure may bemade within the scope of the claims.

I have described what I believe to be the best embodiments of myinvention. I do not wish, however, to be confined to the embodimentsshown, but what I desire to cover by Letters Patent is set forth in theappended claims.

I claim:

l. A combined carrier and stand, for a vaporizer which includes acontainer body and a cover with electrode terminals projecting upwardfrom the cover, said carrier comprising an upper jaw engageable with thetop of the cover, a lower jaw or base engageable with the bottom of thecontainer body and an intervening handle member resiliently connectingthe upper and lower jaws and tending to hold said cover to saidcontainer body, said lower jaw and handle member disposed to embrace thelower'portion of the container body, and said upper jaw including anotched extension plate which is adapted to be interlocked with theelectrode terminals.

2. A combined carrier and stand, for a vaporizer which includes acontainer body and a cover with electrode terminals projecting upwardfrom the cover, said carrier comprising an upper Vjaw 4engagea-ble withthe tcp of the cover, a lower jaw' or base engageable with the bottom ofthe container body, and an intervening handle member resilientlyconnecting the upper and lower jaws and biasing them toward one another,said lower jaw being in the form of an extension of the handle memberand including a body and a pair of branching arms, said body and each ofsaid arms being curved to form a supporting foot. each of said armsterminating in an upstanding finger, the ngers in cooperation with thehandle member being adapted to grip the lower portion of the containerbody, and the upper jaw including a notched extension plate which isadapted to be interlocked with the electrode terminals.

3. A combined carrier and stand, for a vaporizer which includes acontainer body and a cover with electrode terminals projecting upwardfrom the cover, said carrier comprising an upper jaw engageable with thetcp of the cover, a lower jaw or base engageable with the bottom of thecontainer body and an intervening handle membe resiliently connectingthe upper and lower jaws, said lower jaw being in the form ofan'extension of the handle member and including a body and a pair ofbranching arms, said body being curved to provide a rear foot and saidarms being curved to provide front feet, each of said arms terminatingin an upstanding linger, the lingers in cooperation with the handlemember being adapted to grip the lower portion of the container body andto cause the handle member to cam the container upward at the rear awayfrom the lower jaw.

4. A combined carrier and stand for a vaporizer which includes a bodyand a cover with electrode terminals projecting upward from the cover,said carrier comprising an upper jaw engageable with the top of thecover, a lower jaw or base engageable with the bottom of the containerbody, and an intervening i handle member resiliently connecting theupper and lower jaws and tending to compress said body and kcovertherebetween,

. said lower jaw and handle member disposed to embrace the lower portionof the containerbody, and said upper jaw including a notched rigidextension plate of insulating material which is adapted to beinterlocked with the electrode terminals.

5. A combined carrier and stand comprising a lower jaw and an upper jawand an intervening handle member resiliently connecting the upper andlower j`aws and tending to bias said jaws toward one another, said lowerjaw being in the form of an extension of a handle member and including abody and a pair of branching arms,

said body being curved to provide a rearfoot and said arms being curvedto provide front feet,` i each of said arms terminating in an upstandingfinger, and said upper jaw including a notched'1 extension plate.

MAX KATZMAN. REFERENCES CITED The following references are of .recordthe flle of this patent:

UNITED sTATEs PATENTS Herr ce July 15, 1947

